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...strongly worded statement attacking the University for not allowing Earl Browder to speak in the New Lecture Hall under the auspices of the John Reed Society was issued by the Civil Liberties Committee of Massachusetts yesterday...
Simultaneously, the American Civil Liberties Union, in a letter to President Conant, said that "The barring of Earl Browder from speaking at Harvard teaches a deplorable lesson in democracy, a lesson unworthy of Harvard's heritage or American tradition...
...Browder Defended...
...claim of the Committee that the University did not have a legitimate reason to withdraw its permission for the Browder lecture because he was indicted for using a passport under a false name. "No one has suggested that there is any moral turpitude involved in the case," the Committee said...
...amount of rationalization can defeat the conclusion that stripped of its sophistry the reason for the denial of permission to Browder is because his political views are repugnant to the officials of Harvard University, as they are to most people in the United States...